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One of the most important things as we recover from the pandemic is economic recovery. Funding for economic development and planning departments is key as part of that recovery.
The Committee recognises that the Scottish Funding Council has introduced flexibilities including— • Rebasing credit allocations for all colleges for academic year 2023-24, lowering them by 10% but balancing this reduction with a price increase to ensure that overall SFC funding is unchanged from AY 2022-23.
We are currently considering the budget for the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund in 2023-24 through colleges and the Open University in Scotland and will provide a further update once budget discussions have concluded.
What proposed reforms will the Government seek to bring forward to support employers to develop part-time apprenticeship opportunities, especially given last year’s budget, in which the Scottish Government removed the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund, which provided £7 million for employers to develop such pathways?
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has further developed tools to support safer staffing and more flexibleworkforce arrangements.
My reading is that the oversight and budgetary responsibility for apprenticeship funding is likely to shift from Skills Development Scotland to the Scottish Funding Council.
G LASGOW CITY REGION RESPONSE UK Shared Prosperity Fund • the approach of using lead local authorities to secure funding, the appropriateness of the three key investment priorities the UKSPF will support, and the timescale over which it currently operates (2022-2025) In February 2022 the Glasgow City Region (GCR) Cabinet approved the development and submission a regional Investment Plan to UK Government (UKG) for UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).